PHI 2396 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Jan Narveson, Negative And Positive Rights, Insurance
11 Jan 2017
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Chapter 7 justice and access to health care. Part one: an ethical framework for access to health care (preside(cid:374)t"s (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)issio(cid:374) for the study of ethi(cid:272)al pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s i(cid:374) medicine and biomedical and behavioral research) Argue: there is a social obligation to provide everyone with an adequate standard of care without excessive burden. The ground of this obligation is not a right. Argue: what makes health care special is its impact on: wellbeing and opportunity the kind of information it supplies the interpersonal significance of that with which it deals. Do not think that the government should be the primary institution responsible for providing health care insurance. Ethical conclusion: ought to be distributed equally. Well-being: ethical concern about the distribution of health derives from the special importance of health care in promoting personal well-being by preventing or relieving pain, suffering and disability and by avoiding loss of life.
